Timing It Right - Patients' Online Access to Their Record Notes in Sweden
Hägglund, M.; Moll, J.; Åhlfeldt, R-Mharie.; Scandurra, I.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 247: 336-340
2018
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 29677978 Document Number: 696888
In Sweden, and internationally, there is an ongoing debate about the effects of national implementations of Patient Accessible Electronic Health Records (PAEHRs). The purpose of this paper was to describe the current situation in Sweden and compare this with the expectations on reasonable waiting time for information access of users of the Swedish PAEHR. Data were collected from publicly available resources regarding current implementation in the 21 county councils, contrasted with patient experiences, gathered from a national online survey. The results indicate that patients have high expectations on immediate access to information, while this varies greatly in implementation across Sweden.